Sarah Spencer’s knitted star map [I]t wasn’t until last year that she finally cracked an algorithm that allowed her machine to knit in three colours of yarn in one knit per pixel. This opened up a whole new realm of possibility. Her improved “network...

Massimo‏ @Rainmaker1973 17 In 1995, the Chinese Government received $300 million in funding from the World Bank Institute to recover the Loess Plateau, an area as big as France, from desertification. The project succeeded and lifted an estimated 2.5 million people out...

“In some ways we’ve lost agency. When programs pass into code and code passes into algorithms and then algorithms start to create new algorithms, it gets farther and farther from human agency. Software is released into a code universe which no one can fully...